Lyme Blog Posts
LYMEPOLICYWONK: ILADS Calls on IDSA to Remove Barriers to Lyme Guideline Change
Responding to patient concerns, the President of ILADS, Dr. Robert Bransfield today delivered a letter to the IDSA calling upon the organization to remove barriers…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA Violates Settlement Agreement Voting Procedures
On Monday, February 1, 2010, the Connecticut Attorney General sent a letter to the IDSA expressing “concern” over “improper voting procedures” used by the IDSA…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Does IDSA Have Police Power? Can IDSA Regulate Lyme Tests?
There is a lot of flurry in the Lyme light about the IDSA recent letter in opposition to the physician protection bill pending in the…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Groopman: Who Knows Best—a Lesson for Lyme
A terrific article by Jerome Groopman, “Health Care: Who Knows Best”, appeared in the New York Times about the healthcare bills. Groopman’s article discusses…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Oh, Canada! Important New Lyme Study
Drs. Janet and Felix Sperling of the University of Alberta published an entomology study on Lyme disease in Canada that is worth a read, especially…
TOUCHED BY LYME:When young adults must deal with chronic illness
Author Laurie Edwards explores how to best cope with chronic illness in your Twenties and Thirties.
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA Calls for 10 New Antibiotics by 2020
In a press release issued at the end of last year, the IDSA called on the US and European Union to develop 10 new antibiotics…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: MUS is DUMB—Doctors with Unexplained Medical Beliefs
You’ve all heard that the latest drum-roll from the rheumatologists at the IDSA hearing was essentially to say that Lyme patients have persistent symptoms and…
HARDSCIENCEONLYME: Biofilms Made Easy
I had to post this image and encourage anyone interested in biofilms to go visit the website that hosts this interactive introduction to biofilms. …
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA Guidelines—Liberty or Dogma?
Buddha once said “a dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: IDSA Hearings Delay has Lyme Patients on Tenterhooks
The IDSA hearing results were expected by the year end. Then were delayed—until “after the first of the year”. Perhaps the delay was…
LYMEPOLICYWONK: Antibiotic Resistance—Holy Cow, It’s the Beef!
Antibiotic resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the US in 2009. But 70% of antibiotics, which can make animals grow faster, went…